Bellows package for distributing powder.



S. S. ADAMS. BELLOWS PACKAGE FOR DISTRIBUTING POWDER."

APPLICATION FILED DEO.19,'1907.

899,496, Patented Sept.29,1908;

m: NORRIS PETERS o.. WASHINGTON, n, c.

SOREN S. ADAMS, OF PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

BELLOWS PACKAGE FOR DISTRIBUTING POWDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

- Patented Sept. 29, 1908.

Application filed December 19, 1907. Serial No. 407,127.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, 80mm S. ADAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bellows Packagesfor Distributin Powder, of which the following is a speci 'cation, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings, in 'which Figure l is a plan View of the device, the paper sheet of which the package is formed being opened out, or unfolded, and the spring device being shown in plan view; Fig. 2 a View of the package closed Fig. 3 a side elevation of the package expander; Fig. 4 a plan view of a slightly modified form of the package expanding device and Fig. 5 a side elevation thereof.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap device of the class described for disseminating perfumed powder, which will be very inexpensive'to manufacture, convenient to manipulate and which at the same timewill serve as a receptacle in which the powder may be placed for sale. The packagev when placed on sale will be hermetically sealed it being simply necessary to out off one corner of it to convert it into a bellows package.

-My invention, preferably, comprises a tapered bag of paper or other suitable material, closed air tight and supplied with suitable perfumed powder. The point of the bag is to be out off to form an opening through which the powder may be blown from the interior of the bag. The bag is to be expanded by means of a specially shaped spring expander which islocated'within the bag and is so shaped as to maintain the bag in itsproper shape.

Referring to the various parts by numerals, 1 designates the blank form of which the package is formed. This blank may be of paper or other suitable material and is of such shape that when folded along the dotted lines indicated in Fig. 1 it will form an angular package tapering toward the end 2 which is adapted to be cut off on the dotted lines indicated in Fig. 2 to form an opening through which the powder is to be blown from the package. contained an expander device 3 which is preferably formed from a single piece of spring wire of the proper diameter and spring Within the. package is tension. This wire is bent to form the triangular portion 4, whose sides 5 are parallel with the adjoining sides 6 of the package and serve to prevent the package being crushed. The point 7 of the angular frame 4 is adapted to lie close to the point 2 of the package. I

The bar 8 of the triangular frame extends across the package near its upper end, that is to say, the end farthest from the point 2, and serves to maintain the spring device substantially central in the package. One end of the spring wire of which the angular frame 4 is formed is bent to form a coil spring 9 which lies over and substantially within the triangular frame 4, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. The purpose of the coil spring is to expand the package and to permit it to be collapsed by pressure applied to the sides thereof.

The powder and the spring are placed within the package when it is made. As placed upon the market the package is hermetically sealed. When it is desired to use the package the end'2 is out ofi. It will be readlly seen that by collapsing the package against the tension of the spring 9 air will be forced out of the package through the 0 ening2 carrying a portion of the powder wit it. 11 Figs. 4 and 5 I have shown a slightly modified form of the expander. In this form of the device the coil spring 9 is omitted and a s ring device 10 substituted therefor. It wil be readily understood that many forms of spring devices may'be employed in connection with the angular frame for holding the package in its original shape and reventing it being crushed while in use orw ile being carried in the pocket.

,It will thus be seen that I provide a device of simple construction which maybe cheaply manufactured and which will be efiective in operation.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bellows packa e comprising a collapsible hermetically sealed package formed of flexible, dust-proof material and having a corner adapted to be cut oif to provide an exit for the contents of the package, a collapsible expander device within the package formed of a frame of substantially the same shape as the package and adapted to hold it substantially flat, and a spring device carried by said frame and serving to press the sides of the package in opposite directions,

whereby when the said sides are forced toward each other the spring device will be collapsed.

2. A bellows package comprising an angular flexible package tapered toward one end and hermetically sealed, the tapered end of the package being adapted to be cut off to form an outlet for the contents of the package, an expander device within the package and having an angular frame to hold the package in its angular shape, and a spring device carried by said angular frame and adapted to expand the package.

3. A bellows package comprising an angular flexible package tapered toward one end and hermetically sealed, the tapered end of the package being adapted to be cut off to form an outlet for the contents of the package, an expander device within the package and consisting of an angular frame, and a spring device within the frame, the spring and the frame being formed from a single piece of spring wire.

4. A bellows package comprising an angw lar, flexible, flat package formed from a single piece or blank of flexible material impervious to dust, said package being ta )ered toward one end and hermetically sealed, the tapered end of the packa e being adapted to be cut off to form an outlet for the contents of the package, an expander device within the package and consisting of an angular frame of substantially the same outline as the package and serving to hold. the package in its fiat condition, and a coil spring arranged in the middle of said frame and. adapted to force the sides of the package from each other.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aiiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses this 16th day of December, 1907.

SOREN S. ADAMS.

Witnesses:

WM. R. DAVIS, E. H. H. KAUFMANN. 

